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it up in the yard. We get the use of it one year 

 sooner, and have all the strength on the land, where 

 it should be, instead of being washed into tlie streams 

 of water. I think, for corn and potatoes, that ilur 

 benefit the first year will more than pay the expciiM- 

 of carting an ordinary distance. To return to my 

 subject : I next harrowed and furrowed my ground, 

 or, rather, marked it very shallow, three feet apart. 

 It was now the 17th of May, having been hindered in 

 planting 1* number of days by a heavy rain. The 

 Mil* f&re* fiixteen to eighteen inches apart, and I 

 put three kernels'in a hih\ It being rather cold and 

 wet, the corn did not sprout as quick as usual ; and, 

 on examination, I found that a small wire-worm, that 

 had probably been in the manure, had eaten into the 

 chit of much of it, so that only a part was coming 

 up. Although now as late as the 4th of June, I 

 commenced planting over, by putting in just as much 

 seed as I did the first time, in a hill between every 

 two hills, which made them nearly join. As I had 

 only seed enough left of the kind to plant over 118 

 rods of the ground, the rest was planted in beans. 

 I will here state, that the 118 rods was all the ground 

 that had been manured, and a cast was made on the 

 acre from that ratio. The rest was equally as good 

 corn, but the ground was not well stocked. When 

 I hoed the first time, I concluded, at the second hoe- 

 ing, to pull out some where it was thickest ; but it 

 being left for some time, and forgetting to tell my 

 man to do it, it all stood. I directed him to hoe it 

 twice more ; but he did it only once, having for ex- 

 cuse that the corn had got so large he could not do 

 it ; so that it had only two hoeings. The stalks were 

 8 or 10 feet high, and a complete swamp to appear- 

 ance. 



Now some of my neighbours said it would be all 

 stalks and no corn. On the night of the 2d of Sep- 

 tember, I think, we had a severe frost, which killed 

 the stalks ; but the corn was all ripe, the last plant- 



